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- GLC#
- GLC01160
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 04 June 1825
- Author/Creator
- Austin, Stephen F., 1793-1836
- Title
- Second colony contract with permission to settle 500 Catholic families
- Place Written
- Austin, Texas
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 34 cm, Width: 21 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Written in English. Authorizing settlement of 500 Catholic families. The document says that official communications with the families must be in Spanish and lists other conditions such as requiring families to be industious, "Cat[ho]lics and of good morals." Docket indicates it was originally numbered 341 but was renumbered 415.
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